Military Advantage

Famous quotes containing the words military advantage, military and/or advantage:

“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

“Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,
Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.”
—Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979)

“Scientists are human—they’re as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.”
—Cyril Ponnamperuma (b. 1923)